Me again. Today the exam boards published the advance information for the November exam series. You can find them using the links below: AQA OCR Pearson / Edexcel (click on Nov 22 Support) I’ve also put together some student friendly versions which aren’t 20 + pages long. There are two versions: Can be printed on … Read more
The advance information from the exam boards has been published and so we are truly on the final stretch to the first Summer exams since 2019. If you are looking for the information for your specific exam board they can be found here (make sure you use the one for the correct exam board as … Read more
Its been a while. I know! I know! I know! … I don’t know if you noticed but life has been a bit different recently but I won’t bore you with the details at the minute as I’d be here all night and this is meant to be just a quick post. Back in September … Read more
This is the second in a series of posts about literacy in maths. I mentioned in my previous post that this post would explain more about tier 1, 2, and 3 words and also include some further analysis in relation to the higher tier papers. If you are looking for a place to start in … Read more
I know! I know! I know! Its been a while but I’ve been busy don’t you know? To which I can almost hear you, dear reader saying “Haven’t we all?” … This is the first of two three four blog posts about the language used in exams … I’ve split it because otherwise it’d be … Read more
Following my previous post, below you will find topic lists of things that haven’t made an appearance in papers 1 and 2 (all boards) and also “Bumper” practice papers for AQA and OCR of which there are 2 versions : “suitable for both tiers” albeit the start will just be practice for your higher tier … Read more
I’ve written before about “the final countdown” that we have in place in the lead up to the exams so I’m not going to go over old ground and will cut to the chase! I’m also not going to have a rant about people making so called “predicted papers” … It worries me that certain groups of … Read more
If you’ve come here looking for me to bang on about how wonderful statistics is … you’ve come to the wrong place – not that I don’t love stats but now is not the time! I’ve been doing some analysis of the first 4 sittings of the new maths GCSE’s for all the boards and … Read more
You will know that I am a great fan of the Edexcel Hub Meetings (You don’t have to be an Edexcel centre to attend them and you can find details of the first few meetings this term below and you can also book a place for any of the other meetings – here too) … Read more
Mock season is upon us. People everywhere are drowning in papers. Amidst all this marking I asked the above question on Twitter, with regards what people say to the students when they are lining up waiting to go into their exam. The original question was prompted by my gaffer but it’s also something that I’ve … Read more
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